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September 12th, 2006

From the website: The hanukit freshens up a Jewish holiday tradition, the matches, usually used to lighten the candles become the center of attention. By being a small sized kit it enables to perform the t...

Neato Coolville blog (what an excellent name!) has a neat little post about Otto, a replica of a 1931 Model A Ford, which was used by the Missouri Highway Patrol as a police car way back when. Otto can blink,...

Newsicus Maximus blog has a neat top 10 list of the world's strangest children books. This one above is a page from Brasco: Making Firearms Safety Fun and Other Important Lessons in Life.See the whole list:...

This cool robot, named WF-4RII and made by the Takanishi Lab at the Waseda University, can play music on a real flute! http://www.takanishi.mech.waseda.ac.jp/research/index.htm (Don't miss the Flight of the Bu...

If you don't suffer from claustrophobia, staying at the Capsule Inn Akihabara can save you some money! A one night stay at the stylish pod will set you back 4,000 yen or about $35.Link - via J-Walk Blog...

TV in Japan Blog has a curiously strange and nightmarishly cute dance/song number of the Tarako Cupie Girls, the spokespeople for a Japanese company which sells spaghetti noodles with cod rod roe (eggs). I thi...

Fourteen-year-old Khagendra Thapa Magar, a 20-inch tall Nepali boy, had just been denied the title world shortest by Guiness World Records, because he's too young to qualify:Fourteen-year-old Khagend...

From the website:Strategically located in the awesome San Juan mountains of Southwest Colorado, this patented steel-reinforced concrete earth home was built to withstand almost any natural or man-made disa...